tim@acich.UUCP (Tim Lowe) (03/17/88)
In article <6966@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes: > And now for a commercial: When I got into this group tonight, it had 10 > articles. NONE were binaries. None were code of any kind. [some other good points deleted] > But I also don't want to see this group become a spare > copy of comp.sys.ibm.pc. Here, here. Some of us little sites have had to stop archiving this group because of all of the (non-binary) noise. I'm not suggesting that these discussions aren't worthwhile: they are in the wrong place (as is this one - let's move it to comp.sys.ibm.pc) -- Tim L Lowe Automated Concepts Inc. UUCP: ..ihnp4!acich!{utim!}tim PSTN: 1-312-346-8640
jgray@toad.pilchuck.Data-IO.COM (Jerry Late Nite Gray) (03/21/88)
In article <306@acich.UUCP>, tim@acich.UUCP (Tim Lowe) writes: > In article <6966@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes: > > And now for a commercial: When I got into this group tonight, it had 10 > > articles. NONE were binaries. None were code of any kind. > > [some other good points deleted] > > > But I also don't want to see this group become a spare > > copy of comp.sys.ibm.pc. > > Here, here. Some of us little sites have had to stop archiving > this group because of all of the (non-binary) noise. I'm not > suggesting that these discussions aren't worthwhile: they are in > the wrong place (as is this one - let's move it to comp.sys.ibm.pc) I see two basic problems here: 1) Cross posting is generating a lot of this noise on comp.binaries.ibm.pc (CBIP for short) and I suspect that most people contributing are making automatic followup submissions without editing the news group line. Can anyone suggest a mechanism which would limit cross posting to some groups? (i.e. a filter that suppress submissions to CBIP if there more that one name in the (not CBIP) in the news group line (such as this posting). 2) As I have said in a previous posting, some "flow control" messages are needed to support CBIP and comp.sys.ibm.pc has way to high a volumn of traffic to be practical for this (at least I can't keep up with it). I propose that we deal with the present YING (Yes It's Not Good) with YANG (Yet Another News Group) called comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d (or something like it) for all of the binary related articles. --------------- Jerrold L. Gray UUCP:{ihnp4|caip|tektronix|ucbvax}!uw-beaver!tikal!pilchuck!jgray USNAIL: 10525 Willows Road N.E. /C-46 Redmond, Wa. 98052 (206) 881 - 6444 x470 Telex: 15-2167